Innovations ARE

The Wheel - 3500 BC

The Pantheon - Rome, Italy - 128

5 Story Pagoda - Ikaruga, Japan - 587

Chartres Cathedral - Chartres, France - 1194

Duomo - Florence, Italy - 1420

Beginning Of The Industrial Revolution (First Steam Engine) - Great Britain - 1760

Temporary House Of Commons - London, UK - 1840

Crystal Palace - London, UK - 1851

Otis “Safety” Elevator - London, UK - 1852

Bessemer Steel Process - London, UK - 1855

Great Chicago Fire (Creation Of Fire & Building Codes) - Chicago, IL - 1871

Lightbulb - Menlo Park, NJ - 1879

Pearl Street Station (First Power Station) - NYC - 1882

Hennebique Method Of Reinforced Concrete - France - 1892

First Air Conditioning Unit (Carrier) - Brooklyn, NY - 1902

Mass Production Of Glass - 1913

Bauhaus School (Modern Architecture) - Weimer, Dissau, Berlin, Germany - 1919

Empire State Building - NYC - 1930

Insulated Glass - 1930

Arup (Founded By Ove N. Arup - Total Design) - London, UK - 1946

Tower Cranes - Germany - 1949

Los Manatiales Restaurant - Xochimilco, Mexico - 1958

Beginning Of Digital Revolution - United States - 1977

Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) Introduced - International - 1990

International Building Code - United States - 1997

First offering of the Architectural Engineering PE Exam - April 2003

Release Of Revit Architecture - United States - 2004

Parametric Design Tools In AEC - International - 2007

Global Warming Recognized (By UN International Panel On Climate Change) - 2007

Masdar City (Foster & Partners) - Masdar, UAE - 2008

3D Printed Concrete - International - 2010

Extended Reality (XR) - International - 2010

World’s Largest Solar Power Farm - Urumqi Solar Farm, China - 2025

Clash Detection - International - 2016

Large Scale Modular Construction - Melbourne, Australia - 2019

LIDAR Sensors In Mobile Devices - International - 2020

Digital Twins Commercially Integrated Into AEC - International - 2021

Mass Timber In International Building Code - International - 2021

World’s Largest Wind Farm - North Central China - 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence - International - 2022